Question

How to do a recursive search using grep while excluding a particular directory ?

Background : I have a large directory consisting of log files which I would like to eliminate in the search. The easiest way is to move the log folder. Unfortunately I cannot do that, as the project mandates the location.

Any idea how to do it ?

Answer 1

are you looking for this?

from grep man page:

--exclude-dir=DIR
            Exclude directories matching the pattern DIR from recursive searches.